Sentence examples for simple conceptions from inspiring English sources

These all qualify as simple conceptions in so far as they relate to their true object.

This explains what Desgabets meant by his claim that all simple conceptions always have an existent object outside the understanding, since simple conceptions are, in virtue of their relation to substances, of things which actually exist.

Simple conceptions are the mind's grasp of things as they are in themselves, which is to say, in relation to their essence as extended substances, or as thinking minds.

This is at the heart of Desgabets's "fundamental truth," that for the proper use of reason we must recognize that all our ideas or simple conceptions have a real object outside of it, which is in itself what is represented by thought, and which actually contains the degree of being that one sees there.

The Trinity seems a simple conception to the average needlewoman, whatever doctors and Geneva might decide.

Ms. Oberfelder has taken the piece a long distance from Stravinsky's simple conception.

But what on Desgabets's account is the difference between a simple conception and a precipitous judgement?

However, in Desgabets, the domain of simple conception is less restricted, as is the proper function of the senses.

But unlike Descartes, Desgabets concluded that everything that is conceived of is a simple conception, not just God, soul and body.

For Desgabets, as for Descartes, simple conception is always true and conforms to its object, while error is a product of precipitous judgement.

(OPD 6: 227) According to Desgabets, after having distinguished simple ideas from judgement in the Third Meditation, Descartes erred gravely in placing chimeras and other such beings of reason among the number of objects of simple conception.